UK Jewish Community Shifting Towards Green Party and Reform Party as Backing for Main Parties Drops

Studies reveal a fresh political divide across the UK Jewish community, with backing increasing rapidly for the Green Party – buoyed up by youthful and anti-Israel Jews – while older observant men turn to Reform UK as faith in the dominant political groups “plummets”.

Support for Labour and the Conservatives among British Jews had declined to 58% by mid-2025 from nearly 84% in 2020, based on a study from a prominent policy organization, which noted it was “the weakest support we’ve documented by some distance”.

Labour is typically preferred by more “secular” Jews while the Conservatives is traditionally preferred by more “observant” Jews.

Meanwhile, nearly 18% of UK Jewish voters (18%) were backing the Green party by summer 2025 – which researchers labeled “surprising” given the party’s stance on the Israeli state, which it described an “discriminatory system” in a vote at its 2024 party conference.

Approval of the Green Party increased 9% among UK Jewish voters between the summer 2024 election and mid-2025, outstripping the 1% rise in backing for the Greens among the broader voting population over the equivalent interval, and predating the leadership of a leading figure who describes himself as a “proud” Jew but “not a Zionist”.

The report stated the rise in Greens support suggested “for a significant minority of Jews, home affairs and progressive values outweigh global matters”.

Meanwhile, support for the Reform Party grew among UK Jewish voters from 3% in the 2024 election to 11% in the following year. However the rise fell behind the 14% rise Reform enjoyed with the wider electorate.

“Jews remain less likely [than the wider electorate] to support the Reform Party [11% vs 28%], but more prone to support the Greens [18% vs 7%],” the report stated.

A prominent expert said: “The Reform Party is more prone to attract men, more senior, traditional, and pro-Israel Jews; the Greens are more likely to attract newer generation, secular and anti-Zionist …[but] it is important to recognize that it is also an element of a broader, wider pattern affecting the national electorate as a whole.”

Still, the “sharp rise in approval among the Jewish community for Reform UK – a party whose language on immigration and nationalism would usually be predicted to alienate diverse populations, including Jews” was described as “striking” by researchers.

“Large segments of the Jewish community may lean towards parties pledging strength and clarity, irrespective of political history” when traditional groups were viewed as “indecisive or opposed”, it noted.

The study said: “For the initial instance in recent British Jewish experience, support for the two main parties combined has fallen below 60%.

“Given that this is reflected in wider society too, it is not just a numerical irregularity – it may signal a fundamental change in Jewish electoral behavior.

“Three forces are propelling this fragmentation: the Gaza conflict and its splitting influence on Jewish attitudes; increasing hostility towards Jews, peaking with a notable security breach at a Jewish house of worship; and a wider collapse of trust in traditional political groups.

“Together, these elements are guiding Jews in the direction of organizations that provide certainty – be it through mass rhetoric or extreme liberalism.

“If ongoing changes persist … the UK Jewish community are likely to become further split, leading to further internal community tensions.”

The study group, which follows community changes, interviewed 11,000 UK Jewish individuals for the study, named The decline of dual-party dominance? New developments in the voting patterns of UK Jewish voters.

It found that in 2024, Jewish electors were more prone than the broader electorate to vote for the two main parties, with 44% supporting the Labour Party, compared with 34% of the electorate as a whole, and 32% voting for the Conservative Party, against 24% of the wider electorate.

By summer, backing of Labour had declined by 13% among the Jewish community, versus a 9% drop with the wider electorate, while Conservative support among British Jews dropped by 4%, equaling the wider electorate. “Minimal and steady” support for the Liberal Democrats has shifted from 8% to 9% among the Jewish community.